Jean Rouverol
Jean Rouverol | |
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St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | |
Died | March 24, 2017[1][2][3] , U.S. | (aged 100)
Other names | Jean Rouveral |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1934–2009 |
Spouse | |
Children | 6 |
Jean Rouverol (July 8, 1916 – March 24, 2017) was an American author, actress and screenwriter who was
Life and career
Rouverol was born in
and wrote many of the films in the MGM series.Rouverol started acting on the stage. During a break from studying at
With four children coming in quick order, Rouverol did not return to film acting but throughout the 1940s performed on radio, including playing Betty Carter on
By 1950, she had her first screenplay made into a film, but her career was interrupted as a result of the investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) into Communist influence in Hollywood.[5]
American Communist Party/HUAC
In 1943, Rouverol and her husband had joined the
In Mexico, she continued to write screenplays, short stories and articles for various American magazines. Rouverol and Butler wrote three screenplays in Mexico which their agent Ingo Preminger successfully sold to Hollywood. Preminger did this by arranging for friends in the Writers Guild of America to put their names on the scripts in place of Rouverol and Butler.[5] [6]
In 1960 the family moved to Italy, so Rouverol and her husband could work on a film script. In 1961 the family, with the exception of son Michael and daughter Susan, moved to Rome for two years. After a few years, in 1964 they briefly lived in Mexico again, and then returned to the United States for good. Living in California again, she and her husband continued their screenplay collaboration.[7] She wrote a book on Harriet Beecher Stowe.[5] Her husband died in 1968, shortly before he could rise from the Hollywood blacklist after he and Rouverol co-wrote the film The Legend of Lylah Clare.[7]
In the 1970s, Rouverol returned to writing. She scripted an episode of
Rouverol wrote scripts for Search for Tomorrow and As the World Turns. She served four terms on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America, and in 1987 she received the Guild's Morgan Cox Award as a member "whose vital ideas, continuing efforts and personal sacrifice" best exemplified the ideal of service to the Guild. In 2000, Rouverol (aged 84) published Refugees from Hollywood: A Journal of the Blacklist Years, which told the story of her family's life in exile.[8][5]
Death
For many years Rouverol lived with actor Cliff Carpenter, who was another former blacklisted performer. Carpenter died on January 9, 2014, at the age of 98.[9][10]
Rouverol died on March 24, 2017, at the age of 100.[11][5]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1934 | It's a Gift | Mildred Bissonette | |
1935 | Private Worlds | Carrie Flint | |
Mississippi | Lucy's schoolgirl friend | Uncredited | |
Bar 20 Rides Again | Margaret Arnold | ||
1936 | The Leavenworth Case
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Eleanore Leavenworth | |
Fatal Lady | Anita | ||
1937 | The Road Back | Elsa | |
Stage Door | Dizzy | ||
1938 | Annabel Takes a Tour | Laura Hampton | |
The Law West of Tombstone | Nitta Moseby | ||
Western Jamboree | Betty Haskell |
Screenplays
- So Young So Bad(1950)
- The New Pioneers (1950)[12]
- The First Time (1952; uncredited)
- Autumn Leaves (1956; front Jack Jevne)[6]
- The Miracle (1959; originally uncredited)
- Face in the Rain (1963)
- The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
Books
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Woman Crusader (1968)
- Pancho Villa: a biography (1972)
- Juárez, a son of the people (1973)
- Storm Wind Rising (1974)
- Writing for the soaps (1984)
- Refugees from Hollywood: A Journal of the Blacklist Years (2000)
References
- ^ "Jean Rouverol, blacklisted screenwriter, dead at 100". Los Angeles Times. March 28, 2017. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
- ^ "Jean Rouverol, actress and screenwriter – obituary". The Telegraph. April 4, 2017. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
- ^ "Obituary for Jean Rouverol Butler". Horn & Thomes, Inc. Funeral Home. March 24, 2017. Archived from the original on April 6, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
- ^ Daniel Bubbeo The women of Warner Brothers: the lives and careers of 15 leading ladies, McFarland & Company, 2001, p. 57
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Anderson, Tre’vell (March 28, 2017). "Jean Rouverol, blacklisted screenwriter, dead at 100". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
- ^ a b "Jean Rouverol". Television Academy. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
- ^ a b Wishart, David J. "Butler, Hugo (1914-1968)". University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
- ^ Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000
- ^ "Blacklisted: Portraits of 7 Writers and Actors Who Defied Hollywood". The Hollywood Reporter. November 19, 2012. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
- ^ Sam Plank (May 2, 2016). "9 Last Surviving Cast Members from Some Classic Films". moviepilot.com. Archived from the original on November 25, 2016. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
- ^ In Memory Of Jean Rouverol Butler, legacy.com; accessed March 26, 2017.
- New York Times. July 10, 1950.
Bernard Vorhaus directed the United Artists release from a screen play he wrote with Hugo Butler and Jean Rouverol. "The New Pioneers," a new film on Israel...
External links
- Jean Rouverol at IMDb
- Jean Rouverol at the Internet Broadway Database
- Jean Rouverol(Aveleyman)
- Jean Rouverol oral history interview by the Writers Guild Foundation